Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) prosecutions, and (2) convictions, for human trafficking-related offences there were in each of the last five calendar years.

The Ministry of Justice has published data on the number of people prosecuted and convicted in England and Wales up to the year ending December 2018 for the following human trafficking-related offences

• Human trafficking for sexual exploitation;
• Human trafficking for non-sexual exploitation;
• Arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation;
• Commit offence of kidnapping or false imprisonment with intention of arranging travel with view to exploitation; and
• Commit offence other than kidnapping or false imprisonment with intention of arranging travel with view to exploitation.

Note that the first two offences in this list, were superseded in 2015 by the latter three offences (arrange or facilitate travel of another person with a view to exploitation, commit offence of kidnapping or false imprisonment with intention of arranging travel with view to exploitation, commit offence other than kidnapping or false imprisonment with intention of arranging travel with view to exploitation), all of which are under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

Figures can be found in the table attached. If an offence does not appear in the table, it means there were no prosecutions or convictions for it in the period given.